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Speaking of this in front of Sun Wu, Zhao Wuxian paid more attention to his words, after all, he was also a small sect of the Chen family, although he had completely broken with the big sect and betrayed the Qi country because of Sima Sui Tho's incident, but after all, blood is thicker than water. Zhao Wuxian left Chen Wan and Chen Wenzi's spiritual positions in Gaotang, and continued to let Sun Wu provide blood food for his ancestors.

But for Chen Heng, a difficult enemy, Zhao Wuxian will not be tolerated, after breaking through the Qi State and dividing it into three at the meeting of Huangchi the following year, Zhao Wuxian ordered the three Qi, especially the ruling secretary of the Zichuan State, Gao Shi, and the ruling secretary of the Jiaoxi State, to let them go out on a boat and go to sea to search for Chen Heng's whereabouts.

Because of their enmity with Chen Heng, the Yan family of Jibei County, which belonged to Zhao State, and the Bao family of Jinan County also volunteered to participate in the task of finding Chen. In the second year alone, they sent ships to cross the Bohai Sea several times, but they were all blocked by the wind and waves, and the boat never returned.

After all, the big ships of the entire Qi country, as well as the experienced sailors, were basically swept away by Chen Heng, if they didn't know the direction of the wind and didn't know how to distinguish the direction, it would be extremely difficult to cross the sea. Although Lu Ban has made a more accurate compass, and the school palace has also begun to study the measurement of latitude and longitude, this is a sharp weapon of the country, and Zhao Wuxian is not willing to use it for Sanqi for the time being. Anyway, they are not in a hurry, they can find it slowly, and by the way, they can also use their resentment and fear of Chen Heng to make a great geographical discovery in the Northeast for Zhao Guo.

So in the third year, Sanqi changed its strategy, since it was not possible to build a large ship suitable for crossing the strait in the short term, it sent a small boat to Yan first, and then along the Bohai Sea to Jieshi and Liaoxi, all the way along the coastline to find the past, which greatly broadened the Central Plains people's understanding of the vast north.

At this time, western Liaoning and the lower reaches of the Liao River were mainly half-pastoral and half-cultivated tribes.

The explorer of Sanqi said in the report sent to Zhao Wuxian: "Wang Xi Hanhou, he chased his inheritance, and he was dying in the northern country, because of his uncle. This is the "Han Yi" chapter in the "poem", it is said that when King Xuan of Zhou, in order to maintain the stability of northern Xinjiang, he specially established a state in the area of western Liaoning, northeast of Yanhao, named Han, Yan helped South Korea build a city, and Han Hou also led the army to attack the people and expand the territory, but unfortunately the South Korea has long been destroyed, and the western Liaoxi area was first occupied by the mountains and lonely bamboos, and after Qi Huan cut down the mountains and cut the lonely bamboos, the people came back. ”

The first batch of ships sent out by Sanqi to explore found no trace of Chen Heng on the coast of western Liaoning, but only resumed the sea route from Jiaodong to Jieshi, established trade relations with the local merchants by the way, and returned after leaving a stronghold in Huludao.

The reason for this caution is that they are deep into areas that the Central Plains have never arrived before, and where there is no record of anyone who has ever been, where the coastline is mysterious, and where countless challenges await them from the aborigines who have run aground, lost, and have malicious intentions.

In the fourth year of Chen Heng's northern escape, a fleet set off from Jieshi again, this time, they not only found the mouth of the Liao River, but also continued southward, arriving at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, which is the place where Chen Heng is most likely to cross the sea......

Here, they finally discovered the clues left by Chen Heng!

Zhao Wuxian said to Sun Wu: "In Liaodong, the ships of Sanqi found a group of Qi people who settled on the shore, and when they went ashore to besiege the settlement, they inquired, and found that these Qi people were indeed fishermen who fled with Chen Heng back then. According to these people, after leaving the small island in the north of the Qi Kingdom, they originally planned to reach the southernmost tip of Liaodong, but they encountered a strong wind, and the fleet was blown away, and when the storm passed, most of the boats were gone, and only more than 100 people rowed to the land, where they settled and continued to make a living from fishing......"

Despite the pleadings of those Qi people, Sanqi's expedition fleet still took them back to the Central Plains, and then sent messengers to Yecheng to report the good news to Zhao Wuxian, saying that Chen Heng's fleet was wrecked in the wind and waves while crossing the sea, and there was no one out of ten, and he himself was buried in the belly of the fish, and would no longer pose a threat to Sanqi and Zhao.

At that time, Zhao Wuxian was busy attacking Zhongshan Kingdom, and he didn't pay much attention to it, and tacitly assumed that Chen Heng was dead, and after asking Sanqi to present the coastline map, he stopped the search for Chen Heng. After all, the Northeast of this era was a wilderness, and it was too troublesome to explore.

As for colonization...... Even in the hinterland of Hebei, there are still a lot of uninhabited areas to be developed, and Zhao Wuxian and other domestic population growth are waiting for his hair to turn gray, and he is crazy to take people to fill in overseas.

After that, two years later, that is, the sixth year of Chen Heng's northern escape, with Zhao Wuxian's integration of the Lu State and the destruction of Zhongshan, the hidden danger of the rise of the north, the Donghu people also ploughed the court, and the prestige of the Zhao State gradually spread overseas, and the Yan State was also ambitious, hoping to expand the territory of the western Liaoning region that it once controlled.

Zhao Wuxian regained his interest in the Northeast, he asked Sanqi to deliver a batch of newly built sea ships, selected some Langya and Jimo sailors, equipped with compasses on board, using the astronomical navigation techniques summarized by the Xue Palace, under the guidance of Sanqi fishermen, directly crossed the Bohai Sea, and went to the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula that he had arrived before, that is, Lushun and Dalian in later generations to establish a trading post, and continued to explore eastward, looking for business opportunities.

At this time, the eastern part of Liaodong, and even the area around the mouth of the Yalu River on the Korean Peninsula, was the territory of the filthy people.

The filthy people are the ancient inhabitants of the Northeast region, the tribe is in a primitive state, there is no king, but it can already cast bronze. They are the ancestors of Buyeo and Goguryeo, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhan people had gone through a lot of hardships, arrived in Luoyang to pay tribute, and offered the local specialty salamander, in fact, it is not a fish, it is a seal or sea lion.

This widely distributed ethnic group takes fishing, hunting and gathering as the main mode of survival, and is full of curiosity about Central Plains utensils, using cheap Central Plains items, you can exchange them for mink skin, sea otter skin, ginseng and other things that can sell for a lot of money, which is an immeasurable profit. And because they don't have a ruler and don't belong to each other, they can let the envoys carry the bronze seal of Yecheng and coax them to surrender to the Marquis of Zhao, after all, the gap between the times between the filthy people and the Central Plains is like the Indians and Europeans in later generations......

With the deepening of the territory of the filthy people, Zhao Wuxian's expedition team also learned a very slap in the face: it turned out that Chen Heng did not die in the wind and waves at all, not only did he not die, but he also gained a firm foothold in Jizi North Korea east of the filthy people!

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"The filthy people are distributed in a wide area, all over Liaodong. In the north of the filthy people, it is prudent, and to the east of the filthy people, it is Liangyi. The Liangyi and the Filthy people are intertwined, living next to each other, and they are also tribes, and they do not have their own rulers, but according to rumors, there is a powerful state that rules the Filthy and Liangyi east of the Hunshui (Yalu River), and this is the ...... of the Jizi Joseon"

Zhao Wuxian's secret report to Sun Wu said about this matter:

"Jizi Korea, is one of the three benevolence of the end of the Yin Dynasty Jizi founded a state, but also the overseas princes of the Zhou family, nominally subject to the Zhou, in fact there are few contacts, the Duke of Qi Huan also sent people to the sea to find, but after that, Korea and the Central Plains were completely cut off, but this state still continues to this day." At this time, Jizi Korea was basically confined to the area of the Datong River basin, although it was only a small state in the Central Plains, but in the northeast, it was already a great civilized country.

"Chen Heng encountered strong winds and waves on the way to the north, and the fleet deviated from the original route, ran to the territory of Jizi Korea, and borrowed land to live with the consent of the Korean Hou, and it has been seven years now!"

"Chen Heng is a big ......" Sun Wu felt a little magical, when Chen Heng left, he brought five hundred strong men and eight thousand people, I don't know how many were left when he landed, but I am afraid that it is less than half.

"Sanqi's fleet is small in number, and it is not possible to go deep into the east of the river, and the whole thing cannot be figured out, but there is one thing that has been confirmed."

Zhao Wuxian's mood was a little complicated, he was happy that he had finally found the whereabouts of Chen Heng's loach, and he was annoyed that his cunning had not changed at all......

"At the beginning of this year, Chen Heng had already turned against the guest, took the Qi people and the filthy people and Liangyi to seize the capital of Korea, and wiped out the descendants of the Ji clan, leaving only a few people to flee to the filthy people in Liaodong, and the widow's fleet could learn Chen Heng's whereabouts from their mouths......"

"And that kind of thing?" If everything just now was reasonable, Sun Wu was a little surprised.

Zhao Wuxian also felt a little incredible, but the reality is so amazing. The history is strikingly similar, three hundred years later, there was also a Yan outlaw named Wei Man, who ran to the Korean Peninsula with a group of frightened homeless, and after a few years of hard work, he turned against the guest and destroyed Jizi Korea and replaced it!

"Although the process of the whole thing will not be known until the fleet returns with the surviving descendants of the Ji clan, one thing is certain."

Zhao Wuxian got up and said solemnly: "Chen Heng dove occupies the magpie's nest, establishes himself as the Marquis of Joseon, and changes his name to Tian Heng, Jizi Korea is dead, and the country north of the sea has become Tian's Joseon!" ”